Native Americans in the Southern Colonies

Choose the best definition for the word immunity as it is used in the text.

• exemption or freedom from something unpleasant

• power to resist infection

Colonists and Native Americans shared the same perspective on land ownership.

• True
• False

Native Americans believed that land was a gift to be used by everyone and that no one could own land.

• True
• False

British colonists brought diseases to the Native Americans intentionally (on purpose).

• True
• False

Thousands of Native Americans died from exposure to the diseases that colonists brought with them to the Southern colonies.

• True
• False

Early in the colonial era, some colonists abducted Native Americans and forced them into slavery.

• True
• False

Why did it not work out for those colonists who tried to force Native Americans into slavery?

• The Native Americans destroyed the crops on purpose.

• The Native American tribes came and fought to get their people back.

• Native Americans could escape easily because they knew the land well.

• Native Americans did not know how to work on plantations.

Match the cause with the effect.

• Conflicts over land began.

• Native Americans knew the land well and could blend in with neighboring tribes.

• Native Americans would escape easily.

• Colonists claimed land in the new world with no payment to Native Americans.

• Groups lived in peace with each other.

• Native Americans did not have immunity to the illnesses brought by settlers.

• Thousands of Native Americans died.

• Some colonists created trade relationships with Native Americans.

Why did some colonists attempt to force native Americans into slavery?